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curprev 14:2214:22, 8 April 2024‎ MELewis2005 talk contribs‎ m 18,181 bytes +40‎ →‎Examples undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 13:4613:46, 23 March 2024‎ Anita5192 talk contribs‎ 18,141 bytes −14‎ Undid revision 1215154632byXenonts (talk)Reverted good faith edit: not in sources cited. undo Tag: Undo
curprev 13:0013:00, 23 March 2024‎ Xenonts talk contribs‎ m 18,155 bytes +14‎ #article-section-source-editor undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit

curprev 13:5313:53, 8 March 2024‎ ClueBot NG talk contribs‎ m 18,141 bytes −22‎ Reverting possible vandalism by 217.161.97.173 to version by Mirokado. Report False Positive? Thanks, ClueBot NG. (4306450) (Bot) undo Tag: Rollback
curprev 13:5313:53, 8 March 2024‎ 217.161.97.173 talk‎ 18,163 bytes +20‎ No edit summary undo Tag: Reverted
curprev 13:4813:48, 8 March 2024‎ 217.161.97.173 talk‎ 18,143 bytes +2‎ →‎George Lucas undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 22:3422:34, 14 February 2024‎ Mirokado talk contribs‎ 18,141 bytes +17‎ correct cite errors: cite encyclopedia now requires encyclopedia= rather than work=; consistent list source spacing undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 04:4204:42, 19 January 2024‎ Anita5192 talk contribs‎ 18,124 bytes −223‎ Undid revision 1197031700 by 24.23.240.25 (talk)Reverted promotional material per WP:PROMO. undo Tag: Undo
curprev 04:1304:13, 19 January 2024‎ 24.23.240.25 talk‎ 18,347 bytes +223‎ Get the MacGuffin card game undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 12:4512:45, 4 January 2024‎ Hen Settle talk contribs‎ m 18,124 bytes +1‎ Undid revision 1193561122 by Hen Settle (talk) undo Tag: Undo
curprev 12:4412:44, 4 January 2024‎ Hen Settle talk contribs‎ m 18,123 bytes −1‎ No edit summary undo Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 13:1313:13, 23 November 2023‎ Javítgató talk contribs‎ m 18,124 bytes +8‎ Inserted space for legibility undo Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 06:5606:56, 25 October 2023‎ Citation bot talk contribs‎ 18,116 bytes +88‎ Add: title. Changed bare reference to CS1/2. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Narratology | #UCB_Category 2/167 undo

curprev 05:2305:23, 5 October 2023‎ Anita5192 talk contribs‎ 18,028 bytes +457‎ Undid revision 1178649231 by 95.93.203.48 (talk)Reverted unexplained deletion. undo Tag: Undo
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curprev 18:0218:02, 25 September 2023‎ Anita5192 talk contribs‎ 18,028 bytes +331‎ Undid revision 1177057978 by Danbloch (talk)The source cited quotes Lucas himself and is about the saga in general. What makes the crystals Macguffins are what they are in the movies—not what is said about them in the movies. What could be misleading about this? undo Tag: Undo
curprev 17:4717:47, 25 September 2023‎ Danbloch talk contribs‎ 17,697 bytes −331‎ →‎Examples: Remove misleading example. The "kiber crystals" this source is talking about are from a 1975 draft of what was still being called "Adventures of the Starkiller, Ep. I". Kyber crystals didn't make it to the screen until 2008 in Clone Wars Season 5. undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit
curprev 15:2015:20, 25 September 2023‎ Anita5192 talk contribs‎ 18,028 bytes 0‎ →‎Examples: Moved recent post to bottom of section. undo
curprev 14:5814:58, 25 September 2023‎ 47.16.12.130 talk‎ 18,028 bytes +459‎ →‎Examples undo

curprev 16:4016:40, 19 September 2023‎ Wesoree talk contribs‎ m 17,569 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by 147.0.137.82 (talk) (AV) undo Tags: AntiVandal Rollback
curprev 16:3916:39, 19 September 2023‎ 147.0.137.82 talk‎ 17,568 bytes −1‎ →‎Alfred Hitchcock undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 17:1017:10, 16 September 2023‎ Richard-of-Earth talk contribs‎ 17,569 bytes +319‎ It is WP:OR to say the fleece is a MacGuffin when the citation does not specifically say it. You are synthesizing the if the grail is a MacGuffin and the citation says the fleece is like the grail then the fleece is a MacGuffin. However, I found a citation that directly refers to the fleece as a MacGuffin, so I saved it. Your welcome. undo

curprev 02:3402:34, 5 September 2023‎ Tal Cohen talk contribs‎ 17,250 bytes +481‎ →‎History and use undo

curprev 04:0304:03, 21 August 2023‎ Danbloch talk contribs‎ 16,769 bytes +2‎ Undid revision 1171412047 by CAVincent (talk); brackets required in quotes. See MOS:PMC. undo Tag: Undo

curprev 23:5423:54, 20 August 2023‎ CAVincent talk contribs‎ m 16,767 bytes −2‎ →‎George Lucas: ce undo Tag: Reverted
curprev 23:3423:34, 20 August 2023‎ Anita5192 talk contribs‎ 16,769 bytes −14‎ Undid revision 1171404167 by Tyr Lynx (talk)No need to bypass redirect. undo Tag: Undo
curprev 23:0123:01, 20 August 2023‎ Tyr Lynx talk contribs‎ m 16,783 bytes +14‎ Changing spelling undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit
curprev 06:4106:41, 20 August 2023‎ 2603:8001:4542:28fb:b593:4b67:c7aa:c849 talk‎ 16,769 bytes −465‎ Condensed Indiana Jones list and removed a primary source. undo Tag: references removed

curprev 16:3516:35, 17 August 2023‎ GreenC bot talk contribs‎ 17,234 bytes −16‎ Removed 1 archive link; reformat 1 citation per Category:CS1 errors: archive-url. Wayback Medic 2.5 undo

curprev 18:5118:51, 20 July 2023‎ Connor Behan talk contribs‎ 17,250 bytes −1‎ →‎George Lucas: - So it's something the audience either cares about or doesn't care about. Got it. undo

curprev 13:2413:24, 18 July 2023‎ Danbloch talk contribs‎ 17,251 bytes −8‎ Undid good faith edit by 67.245.237.29 (talk); MOS:OL undo Tag: Undo
curprev 04:3204:32, 18 July 2023‎ 67.245.237.29 talk‎ 17,259 bytes +8‎ →‎Alfred Hitchcock undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 07:4107:41, 3 July 2023‎ Richard-of-Earth talk contribs‎ 17,251 bytes +330‎ Undid revision 1163154339 by 73.225.25.236 (talk) Unexplained removal of sourced content. The citation specifically mentions this as a MacGuffin. See https://books.google.com/books?id=wPXhCwAAQBAJ&dq=isbn%3A9780316257442&q=MacGuffin#v=snippet&q=MacGuffin&f=false undo Tag: Undo
curprev 07:3407:34, 3 July 2023‎ 73.225.25.236 talk‎ 16,921 bytes −330‎ →‎Examples undo Tags: Reverted references removed

curprev 11:1211:12, 30 June 2023‎ Discographer talk contribs‎ 17,251 bytes +1,466‎ →‎George Lucas undo

curprev 13:2513:25, 28 June 2023‎ Danbloch talk contribs‎ m 15,785 bytes −2‎ Undid good faith edit by Nayfaan (talk); hyphen is correct here undo Tag: Undo
curprev 08:5208:52, 28 June 2023‎ Nayfaan talk contribs‎ m 15,787 bytes +2‎ →‎History and use undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

curprev 03:1803:18, 23 June 2023‎ BD2412 talk contribs‎ m 15,785 bytes −1‎ clean up spacing around commas and other punctuation, replaced: , → , undo Tag: AWB

curprev 20:4420:44, 26 May 2023‎ Charlie939 talk contribs‎ 15,786 bytes 0‎ →‎Cultural references undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 05:0305:03, 25 May 2023‎ Richard-of-Earth talk contribs‎ 15,786 bytes +296‎ This not an example of a MacGuffin. So, we will list it as a cultural reference. Adding a WP:SECONDARY source. The link to a clip is a WP:PRIMARY source. undo

curprev 20:5220:52, 22 May 2023‎ Nn26376 talk contribs‎ 15,490 bytes +412‎ →‎Examples: Added a note in the paragraph on Hitchcock referring to High Anxiety, a parody of Hitchcock films that mentions MacGuffin by name. (The Wikipedia article for High Anxiety already notes this occurrence in its Plot section and refers back to this article.) For a citation, I linked to a clip of the specific scene in the film. undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 01:0101:01, 13 February 2023‎ Anita5192 talk contribs‎ 15,078 bytes +1‎ Undid revision 1139027377 by 67.21.186.163 (talk)Reverted unexplained edit. This was correct before. undo Tag: Undo
curprev 00:1600:16, 13 February 2023‎ 67.21.186.163 talk‎ 15,077 bytes −1‎ →‎History and use undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 19:4319:43, 10 February 2023‎ Danbloch talk contribs‎ m 15,078 bytes −2‎ →‎top: copyedit + put back a couple of removed words undo Tag: Visual edit

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